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"The Wild Cherry is worthy of more encouragement than 

 it has heretofore received. It grows on poor soil, is easily 

 propagated, yields an excellent wood and attracts birds which 

 are fond of its fruits. Mr. J. H. Schober, the pioneer of 

 health planting in Holland, who is experimenting with many 

 species of foreign trees on his plantation at Schovenhorst, 

 was loud in his praises of this tree and pronounced it one of 

 the most promising of his vast collection." (Geol. E-pt., 7 99, 

 GifTord, 285.) 



Cercis Canadensis, L. Redbud. Judas-tree. 



"Woods, iSTew Jersey." (Torrey Cat, 1819.) "Camden: 

 In damp woods on bank of the Delaware, between Camden 

 and Gloucester. Burlington: Bordentown. Mercer: Banks 

 of the Delaware, north of Trenton. Hunterdon : Common at 

 Rosemont. Somerset: Rocky Hill. Also, escaped from cul- 

 tivation at other places.'' (Britton.) 



Gleditsia Teiaca^thos, L. Honey Locust. 



"Commonly planted, and sparingly escaped from cultiva- 

 tion. Adventive from the southwest." (Britton.) 



Bobixia PSEUDACACiA, L. Locust. Acacia. Yellow Locust. 



"Extensively planted and escaped from cultivation. Natu- 

 ralized from the west." (Britton.) 



"The cultivation of this tree for timber or for ornamental 

 purposes has extended its range from Massachusetts quite to 

 Louisiana in our country, into many parts of Canada, and 

 quite generally throughout England and other countries of 

 Europe. It has a straight stem bearing quite irregular and 

 rather naked branches, clothed with pinnate leaves, which 

 consist of nine to seventeen oblong-ovate leaflets, and, in their 

 season, with hanging bunches or racemes of pinkish white to 

 white flowers. When grown in groves or plantations, or in 

 our native forests with other trees, its stem is very straight, 

 and attains a height of sixty to eighty feet, and is almost 

 entirely naked. But in more open situations it spreads out 

 wider, and forms an irregularly shaped top. * * It 



is remarkable for the length and number of its roots, and for 



